Gene Sharp: From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation (1993/2011) [28 languages]

From Dictatorship to Democracy is a serious introduction to the use of nonviolent action to topple dictatorships. Originally published in 1993 in Thailand for distribution among Burmese dissidents, this booklet has since been translated into many languages and spread worldwide.

Publisher Albert Einstein Institution, Boston, MA
ISBN 1880813092, 9781880813096 (English, 4th edition)

From Dictatorship to Democracy 2.0 (analysis by International Relations and Security Network, February 2012)

a short description of the history of this book (PDF, English)
author’s wikipedia page
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PDF (Afan Oromo, 2011)
PDF (Amharic, 2007)
PDF (Arabic, 2004)
PDF (Azeri, 2004)
PDF (Belarusian, 2005)
PDF (Burmese, 1994)
PDF (Chin/Burmese, 2001)
PDF (Simplified Mandarin/Chinese, 2004)
PDF (Traditional Mandarin/Chinese, 2004)
PDF (English, 1993/2010), audio book
PDF (Farsi, 2004)
PDF (French, 1993/2009)
PDF (German, 1993/2008)
PDF (Indonesian, 1997)
PDF (Italian, 2011)
PDF (Jing Paw/Burmese, 2001)
PDF (Karen/Burmese, 2001)
PDF (Khmer/Cambodian, 2005)
PDF (Kyrgyz, 2004)
PDF (Mon/Burmese, 2001)
PDF (Pashto, 2008)
PDF (Russian, 2005)
PDF (Serbian, 1999)
PDF (Spanish, 2003)
PDF (Tibetan, 2006)
PDF (Tigrigna, 2006)
PDF (Ukrainian, 2004)
PDF (Vietnamese, 2005)

François Dosse: Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives (2007–)

“In May 1968, Gilles Deleuze was an established philosopher teaching at the innovative Vincennes University, just outside of Paris. Félix Guattari was a political militant and the director of an unusual psychiatric clinic at La Borde. Their meeting was quite unlikely, yet the two were introduced in an arranged encounter of epic consequence. From that moment on, Deleuze and Guattari engaged in a surprising, productive partnership, collaborating on several groundbreaking works, including Anti-Oedipus, What Is Philosophy? and A Thousand Plateaus.

François Dosse, a prominent French intellectual known for his work on the Annales School, structuralism, and biographies of the pivotal intellectuals Paul Ricoeur, Pierre Chaunu, and Michel de Certeau, examines the prolific if improbable relationship between two men of distinct and differing sensibilities. Drawing on unpublished archives and hundreds of personal interviews, Dosse elucidates a collaboration that lasted more than two decades, underscoring the role that family and history—particularly the turbulent time of May 1968—play in their monumental work. He also takes the measure of Deleuze and Guattari’s posthumous fortunes and the impact of their thought on intellectual, academic, and professional circles.”

Originally published as Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari: biographie croisée, La Découverte, Paris, 2007.

Translated by Deborah Glassman
Publisher Columbia University Press, 2010
European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
ISBN 0231145616, 9780231145619
672 pages

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Semen Korsakov: A Depiction of a New Research Method, Using Machines which Compare Ideas (1832/2009) [Russian]

The translation of the Korsakov’s brochure describing his machines “for the comparison of ideas”, a punched card-based apparatus for the automated comparison of data, invented apparently independently from Charles Babbage. The translation includes a supplementary article which contains the history of the invention and an endeavour to interpret theoretically the functioning of the five machines and an analysis of Korsakov’s innovative ideas.

Originally published in French as Aprecu d’un procèdè nouveau d’investigation an moyen de machenes à comparer les idèes, St. Petersburg, 1832
Translated by A. S. Ramov; with A. S. Mikhajlov
Title: Начертание нового способа исследования при помощи машин, сравнивающих идеи
Publisher: Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, 2009
ISBN 9785726211084
44 pages

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